My dad Syd Carter had a barber and tobacconist shop on the corner of Wilsons Road and Gamblins Road in St Martins. He was popular with the teenagers of the day as he was always willing to try...
A family Christmas in our back yard in Opawa. I am showing off my new scooter, my sister Jenny has a cane dolls pram and my cousin Wayne has a carpentry set. I can't see what his brother Chris has. My...
Myself (in the middle) with a friend and my little sister Jenny on the right. Mum looking on from the doorway. Dad has rigged up the hose to the clothesline so that we can cool off in our togs. I can...
One of my mothers brothers during the Depression. The family lived at what was the end of Butler Street in Opawa where they rented some land. There was enough room for a few cows which the boys had to...
My grandmother and grandfather with one of the cows they had for milking, on the bit of land they rented out at the end of Butler Street, in Opawa. They had cows, chickens and a big vege garden and my...
This is my brother Enoka’s haircutting held in St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Hall on the corner of Cashel / Madras Streets. He was 15 years and this is a ceremony to signify his transition...
This is my brother Enoka’s haircutting, held in St Paul’s Trinity Pacific Presbyterian Hall on the corner of Cashel / Madras Streets. He was 15 years and this is a ceremony to signify his transition...
Margery Tait (9 years) presenting roll with names of girls of Sumner school to Kingsford Smith after 1st Tasman flight. 11 September 1928. Photo presumably later, though not much judging by the coats.
Grannie (Ella) Button, mother (Violet Alicia Tait) and myself (Margaret Alicia Tait). Mid 1930s. Street photo in Christchurch.
Peacock at New Brighton Zoo. January 1965. The North Brighton Zoo started as an aquarium, possibly as early as the 1880s and became a mini zoo, run by Bill Grey, in the late 1940s. It closed in 1996.
This is myself at Orana Park when it was quite new as an attaction. I was very nervous about going on the pony rides; we had also just driven through the lion enclosure and had a lion jump up on the...
My first birthday. Taken on the back lawn of our house in Opawa. I am wearing a sun bonnet and Dad has been persuaded into wearing a tie. It looks as though he might have been mowing the lawn - I can...
"Grandad, his dad (great-grandfather) outside the ""Smithy"". 1890s."
Sisters, out and about in Cathedral Square.
Going to see Father Christmas at Beaths.
Views from Arthur's Pass railway station.
View from Arthur's Pass Railway Station
Lindsay Rodgers of Cobden, Greymouth with her brother-in-law Ronnie Rodgers at Arthur's Pass railway station. This is the third station building at Arthur's Pass, opened in 1966.
New railway station at Arthur's Pass. Three railcars! The new station was built in 1966.